THEThe next 2 September will be held on Mario Rigoni Stern Prize for Multilingual Literature of the Alps. The jury has just selected the list of ten titles that are played for first place.
The history of the Mario Rigoni Stern Award
The purpose of the Award is to identify the elements of excellence in Alpine fiction and non-fiction within the works published in the previous two years. They are important to the organizers the story of the alpine landscape (in its naturalistic aspects and in its aesthetics) but also that of traditional productive activities. A way to pass on what the past has given us.
But also “the natural values of the mountain environment and its relations with anthropization and the climate crisis», As the Prize website states (which alternates between Trentino and Veneto on an annual basis). The value of the prize is 5000 euros and will be assigned to the best story or essay.
How do you read on the official website of the event«A decisive role in the encounter and comparison between the different cultures of the Alps is certainly that of literaturein its various expressions: both through historical-scientific research and dissemination, and through the story, that the culture of the mountain communicates emotions and feelings, transmitting the values in which the communities of the Alpine countries still recognize themselves today ».
Mario Rigoni Stern was able to describe in the Italian literature of the twentieth century “in an original way the culture of the mountain people, telling the link between mountain people and their environment”. All this “proposing the Alps as a significant horizon of contemporary literature and historiography, of modern ecological sentiment and even of ethics”.
The 2022 edition of the Prize and the 10 finalists
On 2 September at 5.30 pm at the Riva del Garda Congress Center the winning work will be announced. From the 45 titles received by the Award secretariat, the jury (composed of Sara Lucchetta, Giuseppe Mendicino, Luca Mercalli, Annibale Salsa and Niccolò Scaffai) selected ten works that are played for the victory.
The writer Mario Rigoni Stern. Credit: ZENNARO / ANSA
Here they are in alphabetical order. Carmine Abate – The seeker of light (ed. Mondadori). Carlo Barbante – Written in the ice (ed. Il Mulino). Ulderica Da Pozzo – Femines (Forum Edizioni). Pino Loperfido – What cannot be said (Editions of the Lighthouse). Adeline Loyau – Les tribulations d’une scientifique en montagne (ed. Glénat). Paolo Malaguti – The moor of the top (ed. Einaudi). Annalina Molteni – The shadow of the Walser (Monterosa Editions). Andrea Mustoni – A man among the bears (Edicycle Editions). Stefano Piazza – Thinking about the mountains in the age of emergencies (ed. Cleup). Matteo Righetto – The apple room (ed. Feltrinelli).
Finally, it was announced that, during the final ceremony of the Prize, the award will also be given Guardian of the Ark – Osvaldo Dongilli. This year this prize will be awarded to beesa very important insect in the defense of biodiversity but at the same time in danger due to climate change, pollution and the spread of insecticides. The award will be received in their name by the entomologist and beekeeper Paolo Fontana.
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